| NYONGO | See picture clue: 12 Years a Slave Academy Awardwinner, Lupita -----'- (5'1) |
| ENNISHILL | 2017 BBC Sports Personality of the Year Lifetime Achievement Awardwinner, Dame Jessica ----- ---- (5-4) |
| YEARSA | Biopic with Lupita Nyong'o, 12 ... Slave (5,1) |
| LUPITA | See picture clue: 2014's 12 Years a Slave star, ------ Nyong'o (6) |
| YALIES | Lupita Nyong'o and Meryl Streep, for two |
| LITTLE | ___ Monsters 2019 comedy film starring Lupita Nyong'o and Alexander England |
| JUNGLE | The ___ Book Oscar-winning 2016 film where Lupita Nyong'o voiced Raksha |
| ITENDSWITHUS | Colleen Hoover novel, and a hint for the answer to each asterisked clue * (12) |
| DEBUT | 12 Years a Slave, for Lupita Nyong'o |
| THATENDSWELL | Last three words of a Shakespeare title, and a hint for answers to asterisked clues (12) |
| HALLUCINATED | Saw strange things in cryptic Thailand clue (12) |
| THREESTRIKES | What gets you out, or a hint for answers to asterisked clues (12) |
| TRIPLETHREAT | Actor/singer/dancer, e.g., or a hint to answers to asterisked clues (12) |
| SIXOFTHEBEST | Old-school punishment, and a hint for answers to asterisked clues (12) |
| ITSBEHINDYOU | Pantomime cry, and a hint for answers to asterisked clues (12) |
| REDHERRING | Misleading clue, 12, with hearts going astray |
| SLAVE | Biopic with Chiwetel Ejiofor, Brad Pitt and Lupita Nyong'o, 12 Years a ___ (5) |
| YEARS | Oscar-winning biopic with Lupita Nyong'o, 12 ___ a Slave (5) |
| SHADESOFGREY | What there are fifty of in a book title, and appear in answers to asterisked clues (12) |
| SUPERVOCALIC | Containing one instance of each vowel, like answers to the asterisked clues (12) |
